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I was genuinely interested in watching the video, but they were too busy running around in circles and intentionally de-focusing the image (in time with the beat!) for me to get but mere glimpses. Really?

Well, in that particular case it’s a cover – but probably because it’s the most accessible language for the Eurovision audience and most of the ‘serious’ musicians are hoping to launch an international career off the back of a win.
They go back and forth on the language issue though – several times they’ve banned and unbanned submitting a song in something other than your national language.

People are more likely to vote for a song they can understand the words to; an even more urgent concern since the whole thing got democratized in the late ’90s. That means English, French or Spanish. Forcing contestants to sing in their native tongue intrinsically favors Britain (and Gibraltar if it ever cuts the umbilical), Ireland, Malta, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain, Andorra and, arguably, Portugal since most anyone who speaks Spanish and one other Romance language can mostly make out, if not speak, Portuguese.

“His name is Jeremy
Working in I.T.
Never questions why
He has always been
An extra careful guy
Sensitive and shy
Risk assessment is his investment
In a life of no surprise
‘Til she walked into his life”

Last night was the first ever time “Jeremy from IT” was trending on Twitter all around Europe.

yep, no one can be more comically abusive than the Brits: Simon Cowell. probably to a statistical sticking point all forms of american broadcast entertainment had their antecedents upon perfidious Albion (cue: “Yakety Sax”)

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My lovely horse running through the field,
Where are you going with your fetlocks blowing in the wind?
I want to shower you with sugarlumps,
And ride you over fences,
Polish your hooves every single day,
And bring you to the horse dentist,

My lovely horse,
You're a pony no more,
Running around with a man on your back,
Like a train in the night,
Like a train in the night